Wild West: On The Trading Block – Part 3
Grant Campbell
2020-09-21
Playoff Western Leaders
Goals – 10 – Bo Horvat – Vancouver
Assists – 18 – Miro Heiskanen – Dallas
Points – 25 – Nathan MacKinnon – Colorado
PPP – 10 – Elias Pettersson – Vancouver
Shots on Goal – 80 – Shea Theodore – Vegas
PIM – 46 – Antoine Roussel – Vancouver
Best plus/minus – plus 13 – Nathan Mackinnon – Colorado
Worst plus/minus – minus 7 – Niklas Hjalmarsson – Arizona, Duncan Keith – Chicago
Hits – 96 – Jamie Oleksiak – Dallas
Blocked shots – 67 – Alexander Edler – Vancouver
Best FO% (min 200 draws) – 62.7% – Ryan O'Reilly – St. Louis
Worst FO% (min 200 draws) – 42.9% – William Karlsson – Vegas
Giveaways – 41 – Miro Heiskanen – Dallas
Takeaways – 18 – Miro Heiskanen – Dallas, Mark Stone – Vegas
Drawn Penalties – 13 – Elias Pettersson – Vancouver, Troy Stecher
Draisaitl Hat Tricks – 1 – Connor McDavid – Edmonton, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins – Edmonton, Mikko Rantanen – Colorado, Cale Makar – Colorado, Corey Perry – Dallas, J.T. Miller – Vancouver, Nathan Mackinnon – Colorado
Goalie wins – 13 – Anton Khudobin – Dallas
Save percentage (min 10 starts) – 92.4 – Cam Talbot – Calgary
Quality starts – 11 – Jacob Markstrom – Vancouver
I must have been thinking of Mikko’s brother Saku Koivu as Mikko has not announced his retirement. I was a little premature on the 37-year old, but Minnesota did announce they would not have him back.
St. Louis
The Blues were exposed a little in the playoffs and now have just over $5 million available in cap space and it appears that